Beyond the Battlefield: The Spiritual War - Ari Abramowitz: The Land of Israel Fellowship

you know we I was trying to tell my sister who's really struggling like we all are with the evil and good and how this is and what Hashem is doing and I was just trying to explain to her that a there's nothing but Hashem and everything is good even if it's so far beyond what our human mortal mind could possibly grasp that everything is good including what's happening to us it's happening for us and she was struggling with that and and this is just a very very small example you know and you have to be careful of saying things like that considering the horrific tragedies the orphans the widows the kidnapped the trauma that an entire nation is going through um you got to be careful saying it's all for the good but uh we're just us here the fellowship we're a family here and we're we're at the place where you can understand what I'm saying right now and that's just a small example of that and and I want to talk to you about how this is all for the good um and I want to talk to you about what we're facing right now at the farm in specific you know a lot of you have been reaching out saying I'm reading articles that something happened at the farm what's going on so I wanted to talk about that but before I do I just want to start with the Torah portion because these portions are so rich and we're there's so much happening I never in my life have I has it been such a struggle for me to learn to sit down and to learn Torah I feel like between guarding and patrolling and my family and everything that we're going through it's just so hard and I know I'm not alone I speak to my friends and they say that also but you know and and so I'm trying to forgive myself but ultimately we really need to learn uh we need to learn Tor now because it's the blueprint for us it's it's guiding us uh through everything that we're going through right now everything we've been through up until now and everything we will go through up until now and the Torah portion really speaks to us and in some ways the this Torah portion was somewhat of a consolation uh for me just at the very end when it says that you know that Isaac and Ishmael buried their father Abraham together and it says that only will there be able to be truly be peace when Ishmael comes and proactively voluntarily through a place of understanding sort of yields the the way and says this is my brother Isaac he was the chosen of my father and then we could turn and say well you were chosen as well we we're all chosen but we're chosen to tell you chosen you are and so you see reconciliation there and that gave me a glimmer of hope because it feels like we're so far from that right now so far from that it's hard for me to even imagine what reconciliation would look like it's hard for me to wrap my mind around it because I just don't know how we can possibly go back to the level of coexistence that we had before you know if if the nearby settlement of I you know there were there was Arab construction building the homes there right next to my daughter das's kindergarten and it always made me uncomfortable and I was constantly going and checking and making sure that the guard there was Vigilant and whatever we're going to go back to that now who's going to let that happen who's got who who's who who has the trust that they just won't go in and Butcher Babies I don't know how we're going to go back to what it was but uh but this week's Torah portion it gives us that sort of Hope at the very end and this week's Torah portion is called Sarah the life of Sarah because it starts with a conclusion of Sarah's life right this is one of the verses I memorized since I was a little boy because my Rabbi was teaching us a certain methodology we've talked about in the past of memorizing the Torah so we would sing it together and the life of s was 100 years anyways we would sing it together and so that it has a special place in my heart we learn about Sarah's life because she left the world at the beginning of this week's St portion and Abraham I'm going to try to make it a little tighter because I see I'm already running out of time but um Abraham goes and purchases for her a plot uh in in Hebron called right the cave of M and it's actually a beautiful we have a beautiful piece of art Shaina and I do behind our Shabbat table done by the famous Baron Sha's parents gave it to us for uh for our our wedding as a gift and it says it right there It quotes the midash it [Music] says there's three places that the nations of the world cannot say that we stole from them right so let's just take a step back through prophecy Abraham knew that this heon was the divinely selected place where the where the Mamas and the Papas the forefathers and our for for mothers would be buried I I don't know if that's a word for mothers um this is where Abraham and Sarah Isaac and Rebecca Jacob and Leia would be buried were buried and of course we know the famous faith belief that we have that Adam and Eve were also buried there as well and it's on some level it's the entrance to the Garden of Eden whatever that means we don't fully understand that we of course know Rachel was buried on the road between Bethlehem and afh where she weeps for her children on the spiritual Dimension to this very day I think this very moment so um so this Rabbi in modin R soel shared a very important idea about these cities so he was he was saying that um the Western thinking tends to focus on the conflict um in the world of through a prism of finances right and materialism everything is about money everything's about money and the inequality or inequity of money or whatever and that's what it's all about and if you just throw enough money at anything then you can solve it and I think they're of course projecting their own Western culture on this on the world you know just projecting their own hierarchy of values and force fitting that to the rest of the world and insisting the world is exactly like them and there's a certain arrogance that's part of the human condition but particularly in the west but our enemies he pointed out can't be bribed or or bought right so this the midrash says that there's three cities that we cannot uh that our enemies cannot say that we stole from them because in the Torah itself it it teaches us we see that they were purchased for good money Shem uh the city of sheim uh the Temple Mount and Hebron and in this week's Torah portion we learn about Hebron so they were purchased for money so we our enemies can't say that that we stole it from them but it's exactly those cities that they are focusing on and saying that we stole from them and uh because the enemy enemies we're dealing with right now our enemies they can't be bribed or bought out maybe for a few weeks or so or for a few months they will delay their genocidal plans for the right Financial incentive but only they're only taking that incentive in order to further their final goal which is the wholesale genocide of the nation of Israel they're so single-mindedly focused in the most obsessive way imaginable on murdering every single Jew just that alone we should look and say this is obviously and clearly a spiritual ual War this isn't about their level of financial stability in Gaza that's just so ridiculous you know the they're focusing on wiping us and of course the rest of the Infidel shortly thereafter but their Focus right now is is on the nation of Israel and you know I've been watching the the the narratives of our enemies and I listen to their arguments and they say Gaza is an open air prison and they've been oppressed and they want their own State and somehow in they're twist Minds right this can somehow explain and justify the most Savage evil of putting a baby in an oven while raping the mother to the cries and shrieks of her dying burning baby I'm sorry that I'm saying this but we have to keep it alive within us we can't forget how Savage and evil and sick and dark and twisted they are and that's just one of the thousands of examples and you know so that we hear the world the world explaining this stuff away justifying it whitewashing possibly the greatest evil the world has ever seen right and I just don't even know how to how to come to terms with that but so so Jews are coming to terms that we are dealing with an extraordinarily dark spiritual Force who Revels and celebrates murder and torture and absolute horror and that this is a spiritual war and the world may not see it they may buy the very simple shallow Tick Tock posts but but this spiritual Force has already declared war on every single Infidel in the world and the Jewish people are simply the Vanguard we're simply the tip of the spear the the front lines in the battle against evil on behalf of all of humanity